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...Luckily, in one village, a tall man walked up to me and said hello. He was the local teacher and could speak a little English. He showed me the rubble of his destroyed schoolhouse. Only two things had been salvaged from the building: a small, waterlogged globe used for geography lessons and a framed photograph of junta leader Than Shwe that normally hung at the front of the classroom. Asked if Than Shwe was a good person, the teacher laughed. "No, very bad." Asked why he had salvaged the picture the teacher struggled for the right English word and said...
...army trucks plying the road, all apparently empty, and perhaps a dozen trucks carrying wood meant for house-building. There was one small group of soldiers trying to clear away the fallen power lines, another helping locals bury a decomposing water buffalo, apparently drowned by the same 12-feet-tall surge of water that claimed so many human victims...
...poor dear superheroes, we sympathize with your plight. Young Peter Parker, you got bitten by a radioactive spider, which somehow enables you to bound gooily from one tall building to the next. Dr. Bruce Banner, the gamma bomb you were working on exploded, turning you gigantic and green and incredibly hulkish when you get angry. And you four fantastic ones, exposed to cosmic rays on an outer-space voyage - that could happen to anyone. Our hearts go out to you, and all the preternatural X-men and -women, cursed by chance with awesome powers. We acknowledge your mutant majesty...
...person, Lahiri is almost as reserved as she is on the page. She is tall and slender and stands very straight, with a silk scarf tied around her neck, much too elegant for the chain coffee shop in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she is being interviewed. Lahiri speaks quietly and deliberately, vouchsafing only the occasional smile. She orders nothing...
Although the decanters might look unwieldy - the Swan and Flamingo stand two feet (0.6 m) tall - they are perfectly balanced to prevent spillage. So you won't lose a drop when you're filling your dinner guests' glasses. www.riedel.com